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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!info.curtin.edu.au!cproto From: cproto@cs.curtin.edu.au (Computer Protocol) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: com driver problems in NetBSD 0.9 Date: 9 Sep 93 14:36:24 GMT Organization: Curtin University of Technology Lines: 46 Message-ID: <cproto.747585384@marsh> References: <1993Sep5.184053.5872@newstand.syr.edu> <cproto.747358704@marsh> <26l2nv$ja7@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au tdwyer@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au (Terry Dwyer netbsd08 619 491 5161) writes: >Computer Protocol (cproto@cs.curtin.edu.au) wrote: >: dhhoveme@rodan.syr.edu (David H. Hovemeyer) writes: >: >Howdy, >: > I posted to comp.os.386bsd.questions last week and got >: >some sympathy but no direct answers, so I thought I'd try my >: >luck here. I upgraded from 0.8 to 0.9, and now can't get >: >my VT102 connected to com1 on my generic IDE card to >: >work. The login banner and prompt appear as usual, but >: >programs that do terminal I/O (more, elvis) cause a row >: >of garbage to be printed and the line settings to be messed >: >up. This set up used to work under NetBSD 0.8. >Did it? I am surprised, I had the same problems with NetBSD-0.8. It turned >out to be I was logging in using 8N1 (from a dialup), doing an >stty cs8 -parenb to allow me to use 8 bit, and then when I used more or vi >I would get the same problems as you described. There was quite a lengthy >thread on this subject in one of the c.o.3.* groups about 3 - 5 weeks ago. >Anyway, I fixed my problem by using 7E1 when I log in from my SCO (UGH) box >at home to my NetBSD-0.8 box at work. No problems with vi, more, less... >anything. If you can set your hard wired terminal to those params it may >solve your problem. >Good luck, I haven't upgraded to '0.9 yet, I'm waiting until these little >problems are sorted out. B-). >: > Can anyone shed some light on this problem? >: Same problem here. I can't use VI (elvis) on my com port otherwise >: the settings become very insane. >: Regards - Tibor Sashegyi (cproto@cs.curtin.edu.au) >Hope that is of some help. >Terry. No, the problem has nothing to do with 8N1 versus 7E1. I tried a number of different setting including different line speed without success. If I remember right the settings reported by stty -a < /decom0 were reasonable (done on the console). Regards - Tibor Sashegyi (cproto@cs.curtin.edu.au)